{"id":143,"date":"2006-10-21T15:41:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T20:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/143-facts-about-dust-mites"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:04:03","slug":"facts-about-dust-mites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/143-facts-about-dust-mites\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Dust Mites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mites\" alt=\"Mites\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/mites.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Have you ever heard the saying, &#8220;Goodnight, sleep tight, don&#8217;t let the bedbugs bite.&#8221;\u00a0 What they were talking about is the dust mites.\u00a0 These little creatures will live in your homes, preferably in your bed, and feed off what you leave behind.\u00a0 The following are some facts about the dust mites.<\/p>\n<p>The dust mite is microscopic and can only be seen with the assistance of a microscopic lens.<\/p>\n<p>The dust mite has a translucent body and is only about 300 microns long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dust mites feed on dead skins cells from humans and animals.\u00a0<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe dust mite will live in carpets, sofas, and their favorite place, mattresses.<\/p>\n<p>People are not allergic to dust mites &#8211; they are allergic to their feces.<\/p>\n<p>Once the dust mites is hatched from its egg, it will only live up to about three months.<\/p>\n<p>Most people don&#8217;t know they have dust mites living in their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dust mites prefer a warm, humid environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To kill dust mites living in stuffed animals, you can place them in a plastic bag in your freezer for 24 hours.\u00a0 You can also do this with pillows.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to kill dust mites is to wash in very hot water (over 130 degrees).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard the saying, &#8220;Goodnight, sleep tight, don&#8217;t let the bedbugs bite.&#8221;\u00a0 What they were talking about is the dust mites.\u00a0 These little creatures will live in your homes, preferably in your bed, and feed off what you leave behind.\u00a0 The following are some facts about the dust mites. The dust mite is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}